March 1944 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1944 U-358 sinks in Atlantic
• 02 Mar 1944 16th Academy Awards - Casablanca, Jennifer Jones and Paul Lukas win
• 04 Mar 1944 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy
• 05 Mar 1944 World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman : Botosani Offensive in western Ukrainian SSR.
• 06 Mar 1944 US Air Force begins daylight bombing of Berlin.
• 08 Mar 1944 US resumes bombing Berlin, Germany.
• 09 Mar 1944 World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
• 10 Mar 1944 Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
• 11 Mar 1944 Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested
• 12 Mar 1944 WWII: The Political Committee of National Liberation is created in Greece.
• 13 Mar 1944 USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio government.
• 15 Mar 1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
• 16 Mar 1944 Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death.
• 17 Mar 1944 Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke.
• 18 Mar 1944 Nazi Germany occupies Hungary
• 19 Mar 1944 World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
• 20 Mar 1944 Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes.
• 21 Mar 1944 Gen Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy
• 22 Mar 1944 600+ US 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin, Germany.
• 23 Mar 1944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute and lives
• 24 Mar 1944 811 British bombers attack Berlin
• 25 Mar 1944 Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome
• 26 Mar 1944 705 British bombers attack Essen, Germany.
• 27 Mar 1944 40 Jewish policemen in Riga, Latvia ghetto are shot by the Gestapo.
• 28 Mar 1944 Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle and begins writing Pippi Longstocking
• 30 Mar 1944 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg, Germany.
• 31 Mar 1944 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars.

Famous Birthday

• Diana Ross

  American singer and Academy-Award nominated actress who was one-third of the elegant Supremes trio in the '60s and went on to become a...

• Elisabeth Badinter

  French author, historian, and professor of Philosophy at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.

• Pattie Boyd

  English model, photographer, and author.

• Roger Daltrey

  British musician, singer and actor.

• Jacques Doillon

  Director / writer (La Fille de Quinze Ans).

• Alan Oken

  American astrologer and author of "Alan Oken's Complete Astrology," a compilation of his prior books by Bantam.

• Kiri Te Kanawa

  Australian opera soprano, known for repertoire ranging from opera to "West Side Story" to folk songs.

• Marie-Christine Barrault

  French actress on stage, film and television, daughter of Max Barrault (Jean-Louis Brother), she was nominated for her role in "Cousin,...

• Mary Wilson

  American singer, the Primettes and Supremes with Diana Ross.

• Bertrand de Gallé
• Sirhan Sirhan

  Israeli assassin violently opposed to Robert Kennedy's support of Israel; he shot him to death on 6/05/1968 in Los Angeles, CA.

• Nana Akufo-Addo
• Bobby Womack

  American musician with the Womack Brothers, an R&B quartet.

• Ken Howard

  American actor, writer, musician, producer and star of the TV series "White Shadow" in 1978.

• Bernard Golay
• Ranulph Fiennes

  British explorer of the Antarctic, one of three men who were the second party to cross the continent and only a tenth to travel overland to...

• Dominique Bromberger

  French political commentator and TV journalist.

• Nebahat Çehre
• Vojislav Koštunica

  Serbian academic and politician 8th Prime Minister of Serbia.

• Gabrielle Drake
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Famous Deaths

• Formans

  Director Milos mother, dies in Auschwitz.

• Benjamin Delmonte

  Theater director / actor, dies at 79.

• Felix Woyrsch

  Composer, dies at 83.

• Pucheu

  French Internal Minister to Vichy, executed.

• Chayyim Most

  Rabbi / Maggid of Kovono, killed by Nazis.

• Stephen Butler Leacock

  Writer / economist (Literary Lapses), dies at 75.

• William Hale Thompson

  American mayor of Chicago (Born 1869).

• Hendrik W van Loon

  Netherlands/US radio commentator/writer, dies at age 62.

• Otto von Below

  German commandant (WWI), dies at age 86.

• O C Wingate

  British General-Major (Burma), dies in air crash.

• Mineichi Koga

  Admiral of Japanese fleet, dies.

• Rene Lefebvre

  martyr of the French Resistance (Born 1879).

• Emanuel Weiss

  American hitman (Born 1906) (executed).

• Fannie Barrier Williams

  American educator and political activist (Born 1855).

• Louis Capone

  New York organized crime figure (Born 1896) (executed).

• Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Dutch-born American historian (Born 1882).

• Orde Charles Wingate

  British Major-General, prominent Zionist, eccentric (Born 1903).

• Max Jacob

  French poet, painter, writer, and critic.

• Artur Gavazzi

  Croatian geographer and academic (d. 1944).

• Stephen Leacock

  English-Canadian political scientist and author (d. 1944).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Bing Crosby - San Fernando Valley
2. Ella Fitzgerald & Ink Spots - Cow-Cow Boogie
3. Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - It's Love-Love-Love
4. Lawrence Welk & His Orchestra - Don't Sweetheart Me
5. Woody Herman & His Orchestra - The Music Stopped